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Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany, CERGE-EI, Czech
Republic, and UrFU, Russia

IZA World of Labor provides an excellent opportunity to communicate own research
findings to policymakers and to a general audience in an accessible and attractive way.
I am pleased to contribute to this project

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Senior Researcher, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS),
Regensburg, Germany

Website

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Short-term consultant to the World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA

Past positions

Associate Researcher, International Research Network of the Laboratory for
Comparative Social Research, National Research University—Higher School of Economics,
Russian Federation; Junior Researcher, Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic; Visiting Lecturer, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russian
Federation

Qualifications

PhD in Economics and Econometrics, CERGE-EI, a joint workplace of Charles University
and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2012

Understanding religiosity is crucial to informed
policy making

Most religions in transition economies were
marginalized by their former communist regimes. Today, some of these
countries are experiencing a revival of religiosity, while others are prone
to secularization. Religious norms affect individual decision making with
respect to human capital investment, economic reforms, marital stability,
employment, and other contexts. This implies that the interests of both
religious and non-religious communities may differ and must be taken into
account when designing and implementing economic policies, which is a
challenge for policymakers.